Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

Chapter 206

#Chapter 206 – Panic

Ella

I stare at the black phone screen in shock and confusion, trying not to jump to the wrong conclusion. One moment Sinclair was there, talking to me as if everything was normal, and the next I heard a terrible boom and saw a blinding light. Then the line disconnected. It didn’t look or sound like a car crash… it seemed… it seemed like some sort of explosion.

Maybe it was just the call getting interrupted, some sort of weird static… or a sound on the radio. My wolf suggests, even as I frantically attempt to call him back. The line doesn’t even ring, I simply hear an error tone and a voice telling me the call can’t be completed.

I untangle myself from the sleeping pups, waking a few of them but too alarmed to pause and apologize. My heart stops beating, and my lungs stop pumping. This isn’t happening. This can’t be happening. It’s just a problem with the phone. I think desperately, stumbling out of the blanket fort, gasping for air. Isabel looks over when she hears one of the rudely awoken pups emit a cranky cry, her attention quickly zeroing in on me.

“Ella, what is it?” She asks, looking between me and the pups. “Is it the baby? Are you sick?”

“I ca… I can’t breathe.” I wheeze, pressing my hands to my breast in a feeble attempt to make my body start working again.

Isabel tries to guide me to a chair but I push her off, gasping. “Get the King.” I beg, “Henry… get everyone.” The room is spinning before my eyes, and I reach out to the she-wolf to steady myself, certain I’ll topple over at any moment. Isabel shouts an order to one of the guards and he takes off at a run.

“You’ve got to calm down, Ella.” Isabel says sternly, pushing me into a chair and forcing my head between my knees. “You’re alright, you’re just having a panic attack.” Though her voice is cold, warm hands rub my back.

head violently. “No… you don’t understand.” I hiss, between gulps of air.

goes very still, “what do you

reply hurriedly, trying to feel him through our bond even though I know he’s too far away to sense. “I mean, not… not different.” Tears are spilling from my eyes, and my voice is shaking over every syllable. “We were on the phone and then

breath I hadn’t realized she was holding. “That could be nothing. And when my mate died, I felt

I ask

reluctantly, as if I’m forcing her to remember things she’d rather

sorry.” I hiccup, “I didn’t mean… I’m just trying to figure

her

rushing into the nursery, followed closely by Roger.

for me. Both men immediately tense, their faces growing grave and serious. “I’ll call the doctor for something to calm you down.” Gabriel says to me, “And I’ll deploy a drone to fly over the road they were traveling, reach out to the Storm Forest Alpha to see if there have been reports

me, and I feel a rush of sadness and confusion through our bond. I hate knowing that my emotions are causing him distress, but I also don’t know how to help it. I try to send waves of calm back to him, letting him feel my love and commitment to protect him, but it doesn’t help

the other times I’ve shielded

pummels my heart, and I immediately drop the shield I put up. “It’s okay,” I say aloud, running my hands over my belly –

feel the first pulse of anger he’s ever directed at me, as if his tiny mind is demanding where I went – how I could leave him like that. “I’m sorry, I love you so much. I’m here” I repeat

to me I was too young to remember. Still, I must have felt this way… only instead of a terrified flash it was permanent. I’m all too aware that I’m still in the nursery, surrounded by a number of children who were old enough to remember the pain and fear of being suddenly, viciously alone – their souls cut

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